Creator Bio
Ágnes Gergely
b. 1933
Hungarian-born, Holocaust survivor Ágnes Gergely is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and translator, as well as a teacher and a radio producer. In 1973, she participated in the University of Iowa International Writing Program. She has earned Hungarian literary awards, including the Attila József Prize, the Dery and Milan Prizes, and her country’s top literary honor, the Kossuth Prize.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Hualing’s Garden in Iowa
Wind bells over the river with an
Indian name: transplanted homelessness
disguised as a transplanted home.
The garden jingles. Odorous sandalwood censers,
kimonos and saris flashing well among
the…